Rejected Quotes
I love the acting process. What I don't like is what's around it. The auditions and being rejected every other day. The look thing. That you have to lose weight, that you have to do Botox.
Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.
Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.
Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?
Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)
How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!
Rejected names for World War II: 'Global Super Killfest', 'Germaniacal Japandamonium', 'World War 1: New Moon'.
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.
... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!
The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.
Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.
I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.
I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.
When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.
Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.
When an idea is not robust enough to stand expression in simple terms, it is a sign that it should be rejected.
All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.
More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.
If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.
It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.
I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.
I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.
To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.
Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.
The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.
Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.
In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.
I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it.
I was rejected, never given any expectations. ... Then at least, I won't be a burden to others. It's alright if the only one who hurts is me...!
I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit.
The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.
I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.
We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.
All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.
Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.
